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'How good are turtles!'

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:20:02 GMT

Mystical musings and suchlike rubbish in this week's Twitter round-up. Also, the meaning of "Life!!!"

The Karthik-Dhoni dynamic

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:56:59 GMT

Every time Dinesh Karthik looked set to cement his spot in the India side, MS Dhoni seemed to emerge as an obstacle. Until now

Dhawan - Indian cricket's rising star

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:18:22 GMT

After three consecutive hundreds at the international level, Shikhar Dhawan has established himself in the Indian team. But his rise has come after years spent failing and succeeding in domestic cricket

Lancashire building up a head of steam

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:13:12 GMT

Glen Chapple got the Red Rose up and running and now more players are finding form as Lancashire move in the right direction

'New Zealand are the worst users of DRS'

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:35:46 GMT

Lane, Wells and Cleaver discuss the team's Champions Trophy campaign and think only Taylor, McCullum and Williamson should be allowed reviews

Been there, seen that

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:29:29 GMT

It will be an India-South Africa final

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:38:36 GMT

If you had a magical spinning bottle, you wouldn't question this prediction

London: a fan's paradise

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:50:00 GMT

Nowhere else in the world can a global tournament can find such diverse, impassioned support as in cricket's historic capital

Hampshire wrestle with mediocrity

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:21:59 GMT

Competitive but struggling to put wins on the board in the Championship, Hampshire have sold themselves short so far this season

England do it pragmatically

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:20:07 GMT

It's hard to avoid the conclusion that there is a deep statistical conviction behind their current method

Chronicles of the ghost-writer

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:55:02 GMT

In a piece in Man's World magazine, Sharda Ugra shares her experience of being a ghost-writer on two cricket biographies - John Wright's Indian Summers and Yuvraj Singh's The Test of My Life: From Cricket to Cancer and Back.

Pakistan's batting: where failure doesn't count

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:30:57 GMT

Hassan Cheema, in the Dawn, analyses Pakistan's batting woes following their poor showing in the Champions Trophy

Returning home to the cricket magazine

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:21:00 GMT

Coming back to India from the USA was incomplete without a visit to the local news stand

From gaudily dressed duffers to crimson-clad superheroes

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:52:15 GMT

England had to work hard for their semi-final place, and so did the viewers

More England! More Australia! More Ashes!

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:15:51 GMT

The England-Australia matches that nobody has told you about

Why not newer faces?

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:49:56 GMT

Pakistan's experienced batsmen, barring Misbah-ul-Haq and Nasir Jamshed, came a cropper in the Champions Trophy why is why Osman Samiuddin writes in the National that the Pakistani setup, including the selectors, Misbah and Dav Whatmore, lack vision and m

Adams' removal a gamble worth taking

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:15:50 GMT

No other county coach has had the resources Adams had at his disposal but ultimately there has been very little evidence of progress

Time for champions to show some adventure

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:48:15 GMT

Injuries, illness and England calls have all played a part in Warwickshire's stuttering season, but they should not be used as excuses

To beat the rain, should all cricket be played indoors?

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:39:45 GMT

How the times have changed...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:20:07 GMT

The inevitable fallout from the Warner-Root altercation wouldn't have gained much credence some decades ago when cricket was rife with strong personalities and minimal supervision. The Old Batsman shares an anecdote that punctuates this line of thinking

I fire myself up to get into the right zone - Anderson

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:34:47 GMT

Sam Sheringham of the BBC catalogues Anderson's interview with his colleague Mark Chapman, in which the he talks about the skill, physical and psychological requirements of bowling quick

Defeat should hurt proud Australians

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:43:28 GMT

Australia captain Michael Clarke, in his column for the Telegraph, has some strong views on David Warner's errant behavior in the Champions Trophy

'We could not imagine the scale of what Cricinfo would grow into'

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:02:38 GMT

Rohan Chandran, who was a part of the site in its early days, talks about the origins and evolution of Cricinfo

The radio years

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:14:37 GMT

Cricket commentary never felt better than it did on radio - particularly short wave

An era of bloodlust

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:06:30 GMT

What the future holds: cricketers munching anabolic steroids, the invention of the upswinger, and the confiscation of packed lunches

Warner issue part of a deeper problem

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:45:36 GMT

In the Observer, Peter English writes that the David Warner bar brawl is a sign of a leadership crisis within the Australian team and that of an expanding dressing room divide

The ninth team of the Champions Trophy

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:46:49 GMT

It's the one that all the players fear and only mathematicians love

An anti-religious passion

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:49:56 GMT

The obsession with the game that India and Pakistan fans have is one to envy

Exuberance or Experience?

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:45:06 GMT

New Zealand face a difficult conundrum as their young side was steamrolled by England in the Test series but an experienced squad has been enjoying consistent success in the one-day arena

ICC should shed many fielding restrictions

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:19:57 GMT

In the Hindu, Ted Corbett writes that the ICC should stop needlessly tinkering with the ODI rules on field restrictions in particular